The church too hard for the state, or The knight overthrown, a poem

All titles

• The church too hard for the state, or The knight overthrown, a poem
• Knight overthrown

People / Organizations

• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed [by T. Read?] for A. Moore, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1729.

Added name

Read, T., active 1723-1758, printer, attributed name.; Jacob, Hildebrand, 1693-1739, attributed name.

Publication year

1729

ESTC No.

T30752

Grub Street ID

261599

Description

8 p. ; 2°.

Note

Price below imprint: (Price sixpence.); On clerical opposition to Walpole

Sometimes attributed to Hildebrand Jacob

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious; printing attributed to T. Read by A.B. Bricker, "Who was A. Moore?" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110:2 (June 2016), 181-214, at p. 203

Includes advertisements on p. 8 for other works similarly attributed to T. Read as printer.

Uncontrolled note

See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43